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The Creation Museum brings the stories and characters of the Bible to life through a vast array of hands-on exhibits and activities. From star-gazing at a planetarium to a vast insect collection, camel rides, gardens and informative classes, you'll want to spend more than one day just to take it all in. The museum allows camping on-site one weekend per year, but you won't have to drive far to find a place to pitch your tent any time of year.

A Night at the Museum

Camp in a grassy field next to the museum's botanical gardens at the annual family fishing and camping weekend in June. The two-day, one-night event provides after-hours opportunities to fish in the museum's 3-acre lake, interact with the petting zoo animals and engage in social activities such as volleyball and sing-alongs. Bring your own fishing equipment, tent, food and water. The Creation Museum provides restrooms and showers. The weekend ends with a devotional service on Sunday morning.

The Best of Both Worlds

Ten miles east of the Creation Museum, River Ridge Park has more than a dozen tent sites tucked away in the trees away from the RV sites. Although the sites are primitive, a short walk to the center of the campground brings you to hot showers, flush restrooms, a laundromat and swimming pool. Play a game of basketball or horseshoes, let the kids burn off energy at the playground or relax at the community center. Pets are welcome as long as you keep them leashed and pick up after them.

Music to Your Ears

Oak Creek Campground in Walton lies 25 miles south of the Creation Museum. The campground has five primitive tent areas tucked in the trees along Salem Creek. A fenced swimming pool is open for the convenience of guests from Memorial Day through Labor Day, and the campground also has a game room, store and recreation hall. The Oak Creek Pavilion hosts live music on Friday and Saturday nights from May through October, with both national and local bands appearing at the venue.

Away From It All

Forty miles east of the Creation Museum, East Fork State Park in Ohio offers a variety of tent camping experiences. If you enjoy amenities such as hot showers, electricity to your tent site and flush toilets, book a reservation at one of the main campground's 384 sites. For a more primitive experience, strap on your backpack and head out to one of the park's primitive campsites along two backpacking trails. Choose from sites along the 32-mile Steven Newman Worldwalker Perimeter trail that runs along the outer edge of the park, or the 14-mile backpack trail.